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"He had his own little chair to the left of me and a place set for hirabbed ht-handed -- and he made me smear my cake all over my plate

"I started crying because I'd never known hih not perhaps as he wanted it to -- and I didn't want ht away the kitchen was in a flying co up fro to wipea mess ¡¯

"Goblin was as solid as I was, both of us in navy blue sailor suits for the occasion, and I had soest because of the heavy rain that was falling outside

"I loved the kitchen on those rainy days, loved to stand at the back screen door and watch the rain coht electric light behindthe har from the stove

"But let me return to my third birthday party

"Now Goblin had ruined it and I was sobbing And he, the little idiot, after crossing his eyes and rocking his head froers and stretched his mouth on both sides wide as he could, which made me scream

"I knoould never have stretched my et a rise out of me

"Then he vanished, completely vanished, and I started to bellow his name

"My last distinct picture of that event is of all the woentle asthe rain off hi

"I was hollering, 'Goblin, Goblin,' over and over again, and Goblin wouldn't come back

"A terror erupted in me as it always did when he would vanish, and hoas resolved then I don't know

"It's diiant nu so proudly that I was three years old, and then Goblin being so strong and so full of spite

"Also Pops gave ht ether for a little while, and ever after we did that in the evenings right after supper before Pops headed up early to bed

"What coether alone in my room Happy, happy memories We played at blocks, with a s of a vague classical bent to be sent crashing down, and for the purpose of crashing and banging we had fine little fire trucks and auto with our hands or feet

"Goblin didn't have the strength to do it on his own right away, but over time he acquired it, but before that he would take my left hand to do it, or to roll the fire truck into our marvelous structures, and then he'd smile, and break loose of me, and dance about